Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he remembered the guard back at Wissembourg and knew he had only a limited time to cover his tracks . |
| 2 | He darted a brief glance towards Therese and saw she had a surprised little smile on her face , the smile of a professional who discovers she will be singing with a partner well above average . |
| 3 | They are the outcome of more than 20 conferences held throughout the UK and follow an investigation by Counsel and Care which revealed widespread demeaning restraint in homes . |
| 4 | Someone brought it in on Saturday and said she had to go to Africa and would I take it . " |
| 5 | Come home from work on the Saturday and assume he went shopping or something , apparently he hurt his hand . . |
| 6 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
| 7 | He had worked for a year in the Ukraine and said he liked the people there more than those he had met in the West - they were more open and friendly . |
| 8 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |
| 9 | While Wild Will Darrel summoned his servants to reward Mrs Barnes and return her blindfolded to Shefford Woods , she seized the opportunity to cut a small piece of material from the drapes in the room . |
| 10 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 11 | He fancied himself as a new Alexander and said he wanted to learn more about the Renaissance in the neighbouring country , so he invaded Italy . |
| 12 | She peered at the Christmas cactus she had bought for Alan and decided it looked distinctly sorry for itself . |
| 13 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 14 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
| 15 | General Montgomery , who had been brought back from Italy to take a very prominent part in the ‘ D day ’ operation and the subsequent advance through France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , had been appointed Field Marshall and found himself considered a hero of the people , wherever he went . |
| 16 | Granada has a £63million stake in BSB and said there had been several approaches for Alan Bond 's major stake in the venture . |
| 17 | In that document the director-general , John Birt , spoke of the need to create level playing fields throughout the UK and indicated he wished ‘ to transfer support services away from the centre to directorates ’ . |
| 18 | I saw her twice between that Friday in Bamford and seeing her silhouetted on the blind on Christmas Day . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 20 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
| 21 | He looked round for Catherine and found she had vanished . |
| 22 | During my visit to Proctor and Gamble I expected to spend most of my time listening to smart women complain about having their key strokes counted . |
| 23 | Compared Angus Brown in Scarbus and confessed he practiced a charme by uttering some words with a string he held to his mouth which string was to be bound about the hand of the sick person . |
| 24 | Compared Angus Brown in Scarbus and confessed he practiced a charme by uttering some words with a string he held to his mouth which string was to be bound about the hand of the sick person . |
| 25 | , writes : AMERICAN friends saw the marker stone of the centre of England in Warwickshire and confessed they did not know U.S.A. 's centre . |
| 26 | ‘ Last month , it was Eoin Jess who hogged the limelight after his display against Malta and look what happened to him . |
| 27 | That Major still backs Mellor and believes he did nothing untoward arouses suspicions that he does n't know the difference between right and wrong . |
| 28 | I was in the playground playing with Ve Verona and guess what happened ? |
| 29 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : The concurrence of atoms Andrew Roberts looks at the history of political pacts in Britain and finds them disliked , short-lived — and heartening for the Tories |
| 30 | They had used the words so freely in Seville and look what had happened . |